No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
ST. JEROMEMartyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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Music to me is a voice, my voice, it’s my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas can I bring out from these instruments that would make this song come alive.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
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And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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